• TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    4 months ago

    No but I probably still would not support any movement aiming to hasten collapse, because people with the indifference to bring about what that entails could not be trusted to lead in any humanistic way

      • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, are you suggesting as socialists we should do whatever we can to help the status quo because things could get worse? Should we vote Biden and try to prevent capitalism’s crises? We already do espouse what could be done reformistically for propaganda purposes. The crisis is terminal, I don’t know what you want.

      • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        4 months ago

        Do you know what the words “revolutionary defeatism”

        I don’t think the context here is the same as when Lenin coined that term. He was largely advocating for defeatism in Russia because he thought weakening the Czar would enable a communist revolution within the country, which it did. That’s not going to happen in the US, if anything our empire weakening will just make people here more reactionary.

        You can, and clearly do, and I agree, support socialists within the Imperial Core trying to hasten the Empire’s collapse any way we can (which isn’t much honestly) as anti-imperialist praxis, but I don’t thing the term “revolutionary defeatism” is really applicable to this strategy since it’s not going to lead to a revolution, not here anyway.